Beautiful Kodachrome Photos of Life in New York in the Late 1960s
Pace/MacGill Gallery
Tod Papageorge was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1940, and began to photograph in 1962 during his last semester at the University of New Hampshire. Little more than a month later, after running across reproductions of two pictures made by Henri Cartier-Bresson, he decided to be a photographer. Continue reading »
Fear and Loathing in Comics: Jim Mahfood’s Superb Illustrations
Jim Mahfood is an American comic book artist, author of the fierce Grrl Scouts ongoing and the Stupid Comics strip series, who has also worked on some of the Marvel Spider-Man series, including Ultimate Marvel Team-Up. In addition to comics, Mahfood draws illustrations for books and does a lot of other things – there are some video work for MTV at the end of the post for which he did the signature design, and it just blows my mind. Continue reading »
The Amusing Melancholy of Crooked Faces: Paintings by Jeffrey Chong Wang
I’m sure you have photos that show you as if you were in the middle of something, like you were talking or doing something, and then you were suddenly filmed. As a result, the face in the photo freezes halfway through, turning into the funny grimace of a hung-over degenerate. Continue reading »
The Adventures of the Vile Miserables: Stunning Comics by Hunter Scheiderer
Is it possible for one person to feel bad and everyone else to feel funny about it? Certainly not if we’re talking about Hitler or the characters in Hunter Scheiderer’s comic series, characters who suffer from almost every phobia in the world. Continue reading »
In 1908, a Doctor Used X-Rays to Highlight the Damaging Effects of Tight Corsets on a Woman’s Body
Ludovic O’Followell, a French doctor who in 1905 and 1908 published books on the effects of the corset on female health. O’Followell, however, had something that all the previous arguments and illustrations did not: he used a brand new technology to bolster his arguments. Continue reading »
Master of His Magical Universe: Surreal Paintings of Chris Berens
Chris Berens is a Dutch painter. While he takes inspiration from the quality of light in the paintings of Vermeer and Rembrandt, his themes lie more within the realms of surrealism and visionary art than traditional painting. Although his work is completely hand-painted, his paintings are often assumed to be digital photographic manipulation. He lives in Amsterdam with his wife Esther and their daughters Emma & Juno Leeuwenhart. Continue reading »
All In: The Superb Oriental of Jacky Tsai
Jacky Tsai is a Chinese artist based in London. His inventive approach fuses traditional eastern artistic techniques and imagery with western Pop Art references to create an original style that seeks to establish balance and harmony between cultural extremes. Continue reading »
The Fantastic Cardboard Sculptures of Laurence Vallières
“When I recreate an animal, I want to recreate a feeling,” says Canadian artist Laurence Vallières. Her recycled cardboard sculptures express human emotion in animal form, exploring relationships, communication and political issues through innovative use of materials and with a hearty dose of humour. Continue reading »
Ukrainian Warrior Cats by Julia Pod
“Ukrainian Warrior Cats – collection of popular images that became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance against Russian aggression. We do donate toward Ukrainian people.” Continue reading »
Antonin Personnaz’s Autochrome Dreams Of Early 20th Century France
Between 1907 and 1914, art collector Antonin Personnaz (1854 – 31 December 1936) took autochrome pictures of France’s Oise Valley. His dreamy, impressionist-style photographs call to mind the work of the artists he knew, like Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Albert Lebourg and Jean-François Raffaelli, Camille Pissarro and Paul Gachet. Continue reading »
Shamanic Tales: The Superb Pencil Sketches by Gary Villarreal
Gary Villarreal is a freelance artist from the United States working in the video game and film industries. Villarreal is realistic in his work, but on the contrary, he does not limit his imagination in his subjects – his drawings are full of bizarre images, merging into an amalgam of pagan visions. Continue reading »
The Art of Subtle Lines: Fantasy Conceptual Illustrations by Shal.E
Shal.E is an artist who paints pictures of surprising tenderness and elegance. A virtuoso of digital painting, Shal.E uses delicate strokes to create enchanting illustrations of cute young ladies and androgynous young men who exist in worlds of varying degrees of fantasy. Continue reading »
Sleek, Masculine, and Cheerful Pin-Up Superheroes and Ordinary Males by David Talaski
We’ve been taught to think that only gorgeous ladies with elegant shapes can be pin-up models, but that’s actually a vile stereotype – male pin-up models can be charming, too. Continue reading »
Monumentalism of Hell: The Grim Posters by Wiesław Wałkuski
Wiesław Wałkuski is a Polish illustrator, famous at the end of the eighties for his incredible series of film and theater posters and his coolest book covers. Continue reading »
Style on The Big Screen: David Murray’s Fashionable Movie Characters
The Irish artist David Murray decided to add style to the classic movie characters and drew them in the most fashionable suits from Givenchy, Burberry, Calvin Klein and other famous brands. Continue reading »
Polish Artist Paulina Bartnik Creates Realistic Looking Embroidered Brooches Of Birds
Poland-based artist Paulina Bartnik creates realistic-looking embroidered brooches of birds. Paulina loves nature, travel, and art. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and she is very much passionate about embroidery. Continue reading »
Artist Heidi Reed Creates Jewelry from the Moose Poop
Are you looking for a present to cheer up a friend or to make an unexpected romantic gesture that your partner will love? Have you considered jewelry made out of moose poop? There are of options to choose from on Heidi Reed’s Etsy store. The prices are pretty low (compared to gold or silver jewelry), and Heidi will ship this shit anywhere! Continue reading »
Atmospheric Photographs of France in the 1940s Through a German Soldier’s Lens
In 1940, France was invaded and quickly defeated by Nazi Germany. France was divided into a German occupation zone in the north, an Italian occupation zone in the southeast and an unoccupied territory, the rest of France, which consisted of the southern French metropolitan territory (two-fifths of pre-war metropolitan France) and the French empire, which included the two protectorates of French Tunisia and French Morocco, and French Algeria; the Vichy government, a newly established authoritarian regime collaborating with Germany, ruled the unoccupied territory. Free France, the government-in-exile led by Charles de Gaulle, was set up in London. Continue reading »
Postal Prank Boxes To Send Your Frenemies
It’s much more fun to have frenemies rather than just plain old boring friends, because you can send embarrassing postal prank boxes to them. The list below is packed full of hilarious examples you can order from Crazy Novelty Guy. Remember to add signed for delivery and time it when your friend’s mom or partner are home! Continue reading »
Pugs, Star Wars, and The Troubles of Life: Graham Annable’s Nicest Pictures
“With spring in full bloom, Swamp Thing was delighted to find a Swamp Pug sprouting in the bog”
Graham Annable is an Oscar and Eisner nominated cartoonist and animator living in Merrickville, Ontario. He has created works for television, film, video game, and comic books. The Boxtrolls, Puzzle Agent, and The Peter & Ernesto series for early readers are some of his more popular projects. He is the creator of Grickle. A humorously dark world of googly-eyed beings that inhabit the Grickle Channel on Youtube and various graphic novels like the Book of Grickle. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Felted Wool Toys Of Pets And Their Tiny Adorable Twins
Artist Alyson Gurney creates felted wool toys of animals and their tiny adorable twins. These tiny toys are so adorable. Many of these toys look like twins of the animals, but in mini versions. When the two stay in the same place, captured in the same pic, they can steal the heart of any, especially animal lovers. Continue reading »
Disturbing Dreams: The Superb Bizarre Art by Miles Johnston
Miles Johnston is a British artist who paints bizarre worlds of eerie, distorted dreams. The surrealistic images that Johnston transfers to canvas are felt more by the spinal cord than by the brain – they are intuitively frightening, and for the particularly tender ones they can even trigger a panic attack of trypophobia. Continue reading »
John Wick, Batman, Mandalorian: Cool Art by Hicham Habchi
Hicham Habchi is a Casablanca-based artist who draws comics and concept art for the notorious Riot Games (League of Legends, Valorant). Continue reading »
Vulgar, Funny, and Avant-Garde: The Crazy Covers of Toiletpaper Magazine
Toiletpaper Magazine is an Italian art magazine founded in 2010 by artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari. There is no text in the magazine. It’s a fun photo project in which Cattelan and Ferrari mock, with maximum abstract and surreal imagery, the modern advertising in which they have worked all their lives. Continue reading »
The Fascinating World of Japanese Matchboxes – Vintage, Simple, Elegant
A matchbox is not only useful in everyday life, but also a wonderful piece of art. Don’t you believe it? Then you should plunge into the fascinating world of Japanese matchboxes decorated with small but real works of art. Continue reading »
